William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 7 November 2008- 25 January 2009 and 4 other venues
Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 13 February- 9 May 2010; Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, 29 July- 26 September 2010
for this print exhibited
Photographs by William Eggleston, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 26 May- 1 August 1976
William Eggleston, Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, 12 November 2001- 24 February 2002; Hayward Gallery, London, 11 July- 22 September 2002
Cruel and Tender, Tate Modern, London, 5 June- 7 September 2003; Ludwig Museum, Cologne, 29 November 2003- 18 February 2004
Color After Klein, Barbican Art Galleries, London, 26 May- 11 September 2005
for another print exhibited
Szarkowski, William Eggleston's Guide, p. 99
Fondation pour l'Art Contemporain, William Eggleston, p. 104
Holborn, William Eggleston: Ancient and Modern, p. 38
Moore, Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, pl. 123
Weski and Dexter, Cruel and Tender: The Real in Twentieth-Century Photography, p. 157
Weski and Liesbrock, How You Look At It: Photographs of the 20th Century, p. 231
Whitney Museum of American Art, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, pl. 30
American • 1939
William Eggleston's highly saturated, vivid images, predominantly capturing the American South, highlight the beauty and lush diversity in the unassuming everyday. Although influenced by legends of street photography Robert Frank and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston broke away from traditional black and white photography and started experimenting with color in the late 1960s.
At the time, color photography was widely associated with the commercial rather than fine art — something that Eggleston sought to change. His 1976 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Color Photographs, fundamentally shifted how color photography was viewed within an art context, ushering in institutional acceptance and helping to ensure Eggleston's significant legacy in the history of photography.
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